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Book Reviews PIJ BOOK REVIEWS Ethical Argumentation. By Douglas Walton. listic, and the principles of argument evalu­ Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003; ation are fitted to these looser standards. pp. xviii + 311. $85.00. Facts, definitions, evidence and reasons are defeasible, which is to say, subject to later In Ethical Argumentation, Douglas Walton correction, revision, emendation or rejec­ claims to have "laid down the foundations tion. Circular reasoning is no longer merely for a new research program" by advancing a a fallacy of logic, but a structure that makes model of argument evaluation he calls the room for revision and correction. Presump­ "new dialectic" (192). His model provides a tions are tentatively accepted at one stage, method of ethical justification that resolves, and then later modified based on new infor­ on the one hand, the foundationalist prob­ mation. The problem of infinite regress is lems that beset formal logic, and on the other avoided by appeal to the practical grounding hand, the relativism that he believes besets of argument in real everyday choices and rhetoric. Wa1ton's book is best appreciated actions. Beyond simply inductive and deduc­ as a corrective to the principles and practices tive reasoning, abductive (or conductive) of a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Argumentation and Advocacy Taylor & Francis

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PIJ BOOK REVIEWS Ethical Argumentation. By Douglas Walton. listic, and the principles of argument evalu­ Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003; ation are fitted to these looser standards. pp. xviii + 311. $85.00. Facts, definitions, evidence and reasons are defeasible, which is to say, subject to later In Ethical Argumentation, Douglas Walton correction, revision, emendation or rejec­ claims to have "laid down the foundations tion. Circular reasoning is no longer merely for a new...
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Taylor & Francis
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PIJ BOOK REVIEWS Ethical Argumentation. By Douglas Walton. listic, and the principles of argument evalu­ Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003; ation are fitted to these looser standards. pp. xviii + 311. $85.00. Facts, definitions, evidence and reasons are defeasible, which is to say, subject to later In Ethical Argumentation, Douglas Walton correction, revision, emendation or rejec­ claims to have "laid down the foundations tion. Circular reasoning is no longer merely for a new research program" by advancing a a fallacy of logic, but a structure that makes model of argument evaluation he calls the room for revision and correction. Presump­ "new dialectic" (192). His model provides a tions are tentatively accepted at one stage, method of ethical justification that resolves, and then later modified based on new infor­ on the one hand, the foundationalist prob­ mation. The problem of infinite regress is lems that beset formal logic, and on the other avoided by appeal to the practical grounding hand, the relativism that he believes besets of argument in real everyday choices and rhetoric. Wa1ton's book is best appreciated actions. Beyond simply inductive and deduc­ as a corrective to the principles and practices tive reasoning, abductive (or conductive) of a

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Published: Sep 1, 2003

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